The company's more recent innovative successes include 3D puzzles, but when it came to competing with the popularity of virtual games, they encountered a problem, as company marketing manager Benn Bramwell explains.

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Two Cambridge University graduates - Professor Edward Bramwell and Tanaka Ginnosuke - are credited with introducing the game to the natives, winning over students at Keio University in 1899, and the Japanese RFU was formed on 30 November, 1926.

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Notwithstanding, the Indie Games Arcade at Eurogamer Expo, curated by the tireless David Hayward, Tom Bramwell of Eurogamer and Rock Paper Shotgun. presented some of the best of the indie games being created by not just British developers.

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